Finding answers to impossible problems
Faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem in your life or relationships? In the latest Nehemiah Notes column, author Blaine Smith talks about “impossible” problems… and suggests that they often do have solutions. But finding those solutions may require looking outside of ourselves to other people that God has placed in our lives:
…we desperately need the influence of optimistic people, and those with strong, contagious faith, in our lives. In my own life there have been so many instances… where a single individual inspired me to think hopefully about a situation which I thought was at a dead end. While that person may not have given me a solution to my problem, he or she inspired enough optimism that I was able to open my eyes and see a solution that in some cases was only too obvious.
Using several events from the Bible as examples, he argues that our friends and acquaintances can help us see our problems from new angles–and sometimes that’s how God helps us through impossible challenges.
